The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

by David Mitchell

Genres: Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction; Historical Romance

Synopsis

Imagine a nation banishing the outside world for two centuries, forbidding its subjects to leave its shores on pain of death, and harbouring a deep mistrust of European ideas. Set in Japan in 1799, a young Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, is about to embark on a strange adventure of duplicity, love and murder is about to begin - and all the while the axis of global power is turning...

Release date: June 29, 2010

Publisher: Random House

Print pages: 496

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